Story of the Eye is a blackened sludge/doom metal band from Fayetteville, Arkansas, formed in 2019, named after the transgressive Georges Bataille novella and combining the suffocating weight of sludge with black metal's darkness and malice.

St. Louis' Story of the Year became a Warped Tour mainstay with their 2003 debut 'Page Avenue,' which delivered infectious pop-punk hooks wrapped in post-hardcore energy and explosive live performances. Dan Marsala's passionate vocal delivery on singles like 'Until the Day I Die' and 'Anthem of Our Dying Day' made the band a defining act of the mid-2000s alternative rock boom.

Stosstruppen is a raw black metal band from Sacramento, California, formed in 2022, practicing an unpolished, lo-fi approach to black metal rooted in the most primitive and corrosive end of the genre.

Stoven is a stoner/doom metal band from Boston, Massachusetts, formed in 2017, delivering slow-burning, fuzz-heavy material that draws equally from psychedelic rock and the crushing weight of doom.

Stovepipe is a stoner metal band from Asheville, North Carolina, formed in 2015, channeling the heavy, blues-inflected psychedelia of the Appalachian stoner scene into dense, groove-driven material.

Stovokor is a death metal band from Portland, Oregon, formed in 2004, known for their distinctive Klingon-warrior concept and delivering bludgeoning death metal in the old-school tradition.

Straight Line Stitch is a Knoxville, Tennessee band formed around 2008 that evolved from nu-metal roots into metalcore, distinguished by the powerful vocals of frontwoman Alexis Brown and a devoted following in the underground metal scene.

Stoner metal outfit from Denver, Colorado, formed in 2012 and trading in the heavy, fuzz-drenched riff work characteristic of the genre. Their music draws on the psychedelic and desert-tinged traditions of American stoner metal.

Heavy metal band from Baltimore, Maryland, formed in 2022, playing traditional metal with a contemporary edge shaped by the city's active underground scene.